Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman
Suoko@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I’m not sure heroine is the right sample, I know digital products cause addiction like heroine, maybe cocaine would be more realistic when talking about possible increase in GDP, with all that heroin around the US population would be wiped out in a couple of gen
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s an analogy, the article is about digital privacy not drugs.
It doesn’t matter what substance he uses as an analogy because he’s talking about the dangers of pushing a dangerous product at industrial scale.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 days ago
It's not just about digital privacy. It never talks about data privacy. It's about consumer protection and social media's nature being harmful. The only European law violations mentioned are anti-scamming + "𝕏 refuses to make its public data available to researchers". It's also explicitly in favor of KOSA, which lets the FTC ban anything it wants from children's eyes online. It's quite implied that the article supports banning social media for youth.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It actually mattes what shitty “analogy” he uses, because he’s implicitly endorsing prohibition and related violence that’s ongoing and extreme. It’s a typical lib tactic of normalizing state violence.
Suoko@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Well, didn’t I say it was just the wrong analogy?